Is There Even A French COVID Strategy?

French President Macron 


French President Emmanuel Macron is once again floundering as he struggles to placate starkly contrasting views on the coronavirus pandemic among the French electorate, giving the French people the impression that he is merely "reacting" to each new twist in the virus saga. 

According to a series of recent polls highlighted by the FT earlier, Macron has seen his support - compared with that of his former second-round presidential rival Marine Le Pen, still the leader of the National Rally party - decline markedly since the start of the crisis. 

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WNU Editor: My friends in France are all upset with the lack of a Covid strategy. The lockdowns. A slow vaccination roll-out. 80 thousand dead. Little if any progress to curtail the pandemic. But France's political culture is very far left. A majority of the French electorate will not vote for Le Pen regardless on how bad French President Macron performs.

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